people of Dallas of what things our city is truly made and to answer some of the filth that is being spread across the land about our city and our people. Here is what I said in November:

NOVEMBER 2, 1963

Dallas-Proud, courageous-Truly the home of the free and the brave Dallas is second to none as an American community standing for all the highest ideals of Americanism. Its people are the finest type of citizens-courageous, courteous, determined, daring, industrious, kind, patriotic-possessing all the qualities which set apart those who founded this Nation and the pioneers who began its development. Through the years Dallas leaders have been unselfish, forward-looking, builders with giant ideas and giant abilities. Dallas has now, and has always had, one of the most effective and respected police forces anywhere in the world. Dallas has enjoyed capable, hard-working, successful administrators.

Dallas is America. Its people are Americans, remembering and inspired by the tradition of the Alamo. Dallas' contributions to business, industry, art, culture, have been an integral part of the greatness of America. Dallas-What it is-What it stands for 1. Dallas is a community of people who believe in the individual and in capitalism

2. No city in the Nation can outstrip Dallas in growth figures, in job opportunities, in new car registrations, in homebuilding, in tackling slum problems, in rejuvenating its blighted areas, and all on its own through private, individual initiative.

3. Dallas has never had racial demonstrations, violence against minorities, bombings, race riots that have plagued so many other communities in both the North and South without apology.

4. Dallas peacefully integrated, quietly and through its own efforts.

5. Dallas citizens of all races, religions, and economic status have joined their talents and their efforts in creating a great, beautiful, dynamic, free community.

I am for Dallas

What I said in November about my native city I have always believed, and I believe it now. Whatever the cost, whatever political consequences to me personally, I am for Dallas. I will never knowingly utter a word or commit an act that will bring discredit upon my community. The people of Dallas, all the people of Dallas, are my neighbors, to be respected, to be treated as intelligent human beings. In whatever capacity I serve I am firmly convinced that I can serve America best by serving Dallas, by doing all I can to perpetuate its strength, to correct evils when we find them, but above all in having continued faith in this city and in these people. This is the message I am carrying across America in the many speeches I am privileged to make.

War on poverty

America has always conducted a war on poverty. Our concern with raising the standard of living of all the people of the Nation did not begin with the President's message this week. The efforts of every generation has gone into creating more wealth, more opportunity, greater educational facilities, a better life, new avenues for the pursuit of happiness. This has been done by the people, not by the Government. Individuals contributed their time, talents, abilities, and dreams to the building of America. Business and industry contributed to the development of our boundless resources and created jobs for more people at better wages than any other country has ever done in the history of the world. We are all agreed on eliminating poverty. But we can do it only through expansion of the private enterprise system. The Government cannot create jobs, nor can it for long feed and clothe and house the people without taking from them

their most precious commodity-freedom. The brass band approach to giving people a better life may be good for votes in an election year, but after the ballots are in, precious few will find their lot improved. Only through the unleashing of the powerful forces of private enterprise, with less Federal dictation and less restrictive taxes, will the war on poverty be won.

The foreign aid message

The President's foreign aid message is as fallacious as his repeated statement that "we are beloved around the world" when all the evidence points to the contrary. Details next week.

Panama Canal: Focus of Red Attacks

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. W. J. BRYAN DORN

OF SOUTH CAROLINA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, March 19, 1964

Mr. DORN. Mr. Speaker, after the Panamanian Red-directed mob assaults on the Canal Zone in January 1964, Hal Hendrix, Latin American correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspapers visited the Isthmus of Panama and wrote a series of informative news stories published in the Washington Daily News.

Because the objective revelations in this series should aid in counteracting some of the false propaganda constantly emanating from the noxious effluvia emanating from the miasmatic jungles of Panama concerning Panama Canal policies of the United States, I quote four of Mr. Hendrix's stories written in Panama City, Republic of Panama.

It will be noted in the leading article that Deputy Thelma King, Castro-admiring Red member of the Panamanian National Assembly, on January 10 in the midst of the lawlessness and disorder, led a street mob to the headquarters of the National Guard of Panama and demanded that arms be issued to the mob to fight U.S. forces inside the Canal Zone, which demand was refused. Other disclosures by Mr. Hendrix are equally significant.

The articles which follow are commended for careful study by all concerned with the problems of the Panama Canal and relations between Panama and the United States:

[From the Washington (D.C.) Daily News, Feb. 24, 1964]

PANAMA FEARS GROWTH OF CASTRO-
COMMUNISM

(By Hal Hendrix)

PANAMA CITY, February 24.-Among many well-educated and intelligent Panamanians there is growing concern about the mushrooming influence of Castro communism here.

It is recognized the leftist elements are capitalizing on the ultranationalist antiAmerican fever stemming from last month's violent Canal Zone border clash.

The fevered reaction to the January 9 incident over the Panamanian and American flags at a high school in the Canal Zone is made to order for Castro-Communist exploitation.

Castro-Communist elements have been riding happily on the ultranationalist bandwagon.

Their leaders have been in the forefront

of the chorus for "unity" behind the government of President Roberto Chiari.

BELITTLED

Yet high-ranking Government officials and some prominent Panamanians outside the administration are publicly discounting the growing influence of agitators trained in Havana, Moscow, and Peiping.

Echoing them are the Panama City newspapers and radio and television stations-all of which are inclined to play down the subject.

This dismissal of what may well become a major problem for both Panama and the United States usually is wrapped in a wellmeaning admonition to the visitor: "Don't confuse our nationalism with communism." SIGNS ARE CLEAR

But the Castro-Communist handwriting is becoming clearly visible on the Panamanian wall.

If nothing else, the crisis of the last 6 weeks has served to expose the extent of penetration and activities of the CastroMarxist factions.

The are increasing their exploitation with methodical skill.

Infiltration into educational, professional, intellectual and labor circles now is extensive.

Key infiltrators have received intensive

training and indoctrination in Cuba, the

Soviet Union and Red China.

They have been graduated as experts in such fields as fabrication of incendiary "Molotov cocktails," use of sabotage tools and firearms, and inciting mob violence.

FRIEND OF CASTRO

Some persons believe key figures in the shadowy movement have access to various government doors.

Bolstering this belief is the prominence of Thelma King, a national deputy, in last month's anti-American violence and her sustained activity in the field of agitation.

Miss King is an avowed admirer and close friend of Fidel Castro.

She has visited Cuba at least seven times since 1961. She was a delegate to the Communist "Peace Congress" in Moscow in 1962.

She also is a newspaper columnist, lawyer, and part owner of Radio Tribuna which during the January rioting was a principal instrument of incitement.

She has said a leftist government must be established in Panama by any means necessary.

LED THE MOB

Last January 10, practicing what she preaches, Miss King led a large street mob to Panama's National Guard headquarters to demand that arms be issued to people on the streets to fight against U.S. forces inside the Canal Zone.

Her demands were not met, but she succeeded in stirring resentment against the National Guard.

The next day she turned up in Colon and was observed inciting mobs there to violence against Americans.

There is growing speculation that Castro, following his spectacular failure to sabotage the presidential elections in Venezuela last December, chose to shift the stage of his subversive activity to smaller Panama-already simmering with built-in anti-American sentiment.

"Six weeks ago if someone told me the Castroites or Communists had a chance here, I would have said he was crazy," a prominent Panamanian executive commented. "Now, I'm not so sure. It's becoming a very serious and dangerous matter. I'm afraid."

[From the Washington (D.C.) Daily News. Feb. 25, 1964]

WHO'S WHO AMONG PANAMA REDS
(By Hal Hendrix)

PANAMA CITY, February 25.-The Communist Party, as such, has been outlawed in

Panama since 1953. But Castroite-Marxists function boldly from behind two front organizations and have infiltrated deeply into

others.

In spite of repeated statements by Panamanian officials that Castro-communism has not influenced the course of events here since the violent anti-American explosion 6 weeks ago, developments indicate the contrary.

Some responsible Panamanians believe the anti-American passions, whipped up by the January 9-10 riots, might have subsided by now if it weren't for the well-organized campaign by extremist elements here.

Using the big lie technique, the leftists have shouted so often and loudly that Panama's masses now actually believe U.S. troops invaded Panama last month and used tanks and guns against "the defenseless Panamanian people."

The number of fellow travelers and sympathizers is put at 5,000. The hard core is said to be well organized and disciplined.

TWO GROUPS

The two principal Communist front organizations are the Partido Del Pueblo or Peoples Party, and the hard-line group called National Action Vanguard (VAN). Jointly heading the PDP are Hugo Alejandro Victor, who has visited Russia since the January riots, and Francisco Chang Marin, one of the top organizers of the Castroite "peasant leagues" in the interior. Marin visited in Russia and Red China in the early 1950's and again in 1959.

Leading the VAN is Alvaro MenendezFranco, a city councilman here, who has made at least six trips to Cuba since 1960. VAN is known to be financed from Havana. The Panama Federation of Students (FEP) has become a hotbed of the Castro communism. Its leadership is riddled with graduates and loud supporters of Cuba.

The University of Panama also embraces an organization called the Reform Front, which is financed and directed by the outlawed Communist Party. Panamanian student control has fallen into the hands of a tightly knit cluster of young men who in recent weeks have demonstrated their demagogic skills and allegance to Castro communism.

They are Victor Avila, Cesar Carrasquillo, Albert Calvo, and Eligio Salas. Avila, 25, a relative newcomer on the Red scene, is secretary general of the FEP. Earlier, he had been active in Marxist study groups at the University of Panama and in organizing proCuba organizations.

Carrasquillo, 23, has been active in the Communist youth movement and also served in the leadership of the Reform Front. He left February 6 for the Soviet Union and has not returned.

Calvo, 26, has been closely associated with the Communist youth movement and is in the forefront of Marxist study groups at school.

Salas, regarded as a diligent Castroite, attends the law school at the university. He has been active in the Communist Party movement the past 3 years and is a prominent member of the Reform Front.

Carrasquillo, Calvo, and Salas all appeared in photographs given the special mission of the Organization of American States which came here to investigate Panama's charges of aggression by the United States.

Another important person in the Communist web at the university is Dr. Carlos Ivan Zuniga, a law school professor. He is legal counselor for the Pacific Coast Banana Workers Union, with about 5,000 members.

[From the Washington (D.C.) Daily News, Feb. 28, 1964]

PANAMA EXTREMISTS TALK THROUGH THEIR HATS

(By Hal Hendrix) PANAMA CITY, February 28.-The supernationalists in Panama, bolstered by leftist

are spreading

anti-American extremists, propaganda charges that the U.S. Canal Zone is stealing Panama's water and selling it back to the Republic.

By treaty, the United States does have water-access rights to Miraflores, Gatun, and Madden Lakes, and from the Charges River and all contributing streams for servicing the canal and its related operations. But the United States does not charge Panama for the water it receives from the zone.

Actually, no other Latin American capital has the safe and modern water system enjoyed by Panamá City and the rest of the Republic.

During the canal construction era, the United States invested $10.6 million in a water purification and distribution system to handle water needs in the Canal Zone and in Panama's two terminal cities, Colón and Panama City.

In 1946, the U.S.-built water and sewer systems were transferred to the Republic of Panama at an unrecovered cost of $669,000. Last year, the Canal Zone spent $1,562,733 to operate its water laboratories branch. More than 7 percent of the water this facility purified went to Panama.

Also, last year the Canal Zone spent $7 million for a 30-inch main to meet the increasing needs of Panamá City and its suburbs. Now under construction is a 14,000foot pipeline costing $100,665, which the Canal Zone is building to furnish fresh water to five Atlantic-side communities in Panama. Panama is charged only for purification of the water it gets, at the relatively low rates of 75 cents per 100 cubic feet for the first units, and 7 cents per unit for all in excess of 100,000 units.

the commissionary is owned by President Roberto Chiari.

DOLLAR STOP

In addition to direct purchases, U.S. citizen employees of the zone administration spent $8.5 million in Panama for goods, services and entertainment in 1962.

This flow of dollars has stopped since the riots last month.

Making Jobs by Supporting Existing Industry

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. GEORGE E. SHIPLEY

OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. SHIPLEY. Mr. Speaker, President Johnson has given Congress marching orders for the war on poverty in concentrating $962,500,000 on his attack to help the needy young Americans.

We have, in our congressional district, a plan of operation that could strike a blow against poverty which could be used and copied throughout the many areas of the United States; whereby it would not be necessary to spend huge sums. We have the facilities to train for new jobs, putting your young peo

Mar. 2, 1964]

A STORY THE AVERAGE CITIZEN ISN'T TOLD; MONEY FLOWS VIA THE CANAL (By Hal Hendrix)

PANAMA CITY, March 2.-Anti-American hatemongers here are. charging that Panama is getting grossly shortchanged by U.S. operation of the Canal Zone.

The average Panamanian, fed distorted information about the canal operations and the controversial Canal Zone treaty, believes that Panama gets virtually nothing.

BARRAGE

In face of Panama's press and radio barrage, the United States has not been able to get the factual story across to the man on the street.

No Panamanian will believe that in 1962, for example, the benefits that accrued to his country from the canal totaled $84 million.

The average Panamanian knows only, through recent published comments, that the current treaty provides Panama with an annual annuity of $1,930,000.

He doesn't know, or want to know now, that in addition to the $84 million there are other benefits which can't be easily tabulated.

These include water, public health, sanitation, tourism, trade, transportation, agricultural improvements, training in industrial and many other diversified skills and availability of technical personnel for consultation and assistance.

TRADE DEFICIT

In 1962, the last year in which there is a detailed accounting, Panama's outlay for imports ran about $130 million.

But it was able to export only about $30 million worth of products. A large share of this deficit came from the not-talked-about benefits from the Canal Zone.

Direct purchases from Panama by the Canal Zone organization and its contractors totaled $13.3 million in 1962.

For the zone commissionary alone, the administration spends an estimated $100,000 a month with Panama's producers. And the largest single supplier of milk and sugar for

America can and must lead the free world in creating a society in which every man and woman who needs work may find employment in a decent job at a fair wage. This concept of broad social justice can be realized if all Americans will put their hearts as well as their minds into the battle against poverty.

The war against the forces which produce poverty must be waged by Americans who are not themselves afflicted by povertyAmericans who are in the position to provide the intelligence, the means, and the drive to uplift their brother Americans who are not so fortunately situated.

Poverty can be permanently eradicated only by providing jobs for people who are willing to work. Handouts and doles, however well intended, afford only temporary and partial relief and do not restore to the jobless man the dignity of labor which he must have to hold his head high and walk tall among his fellows.

Unemployment must be stamped out where it exists-and it exists to a serious extent in Wabash County. Our existing industry can provide hundreds of more jobs for those who need them-and provide opportunities right here at home for our youth. Forces have been put in motion to harness the efforts of several Government agencies and corporations holding large Government contracts to channel some of the work to our existing local industry.

Expansion of job opportunities in our existing industries which already have the know-how, equipment, buildings, products,

and financial stability is our best and most immediate chance for creating jobs.

Every citizen who wants to help his neighbor find a job can best accomplish that highly worthwhile objective by supporting our existing local industry in every way his intelligence and means will dedicate.

Tax Cut

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS

OF MICHIGAN

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964 Mrs. GRIFFITHS. Mr. Speaker, after 2 years of work on a tax bill, the theory of which was that it would generate billions of dollars of additional purchasing power through private channels and thus increase employment, it is a pleasure to read today's papers and today's press releases and find that the expected results of the tax cut are a reality.

General Motors has just announced an anticipated $2 billion increase in expenditures for plants and equipment-over $900 million of which will be spent this year and $1 billion in 1965. In making this announcement, Mr. Donner, chairman of the board of General Motors, said:

This will represent the largest total of capital expenditures that General Motors has ever made in any 2-year period in its history-about 30 percent above what we spent in 1955 and 1956 when our last major expansion was underway. Another measure of the size of this program is that our average annual expenditures for plant and equipment in the next 2 years will be about double the annual average over the 6 years following 1956.

The record program, he explained, is needed to keep pace with a growing market for the automotive industry, which is expected to reach average annual sales levels of at least 10 million new passenger cars and trucks in the United States and 13 million outside of the United States by 1970. These levels would represent increases of 15 percent in the United States and about 35 percent abroad over current markets.

Mr. Donner said:

These planned plant expenditures may be said to be a measure of the confidence of General Motors in the future-its own future in the automobile industry-the economic future of our country-the even broader future represented by the potentialities for increased trade and investment among the free nations of the world.

About 75 percent, or nearly $12 billion, of the $2 billion in capital expenditures is scheduled for the United States, of which approximately $700 million will be spent this year and $750 million in 1965.

Oversea expenditures for plants and equipment will total nearly $400 million for the 2-year period.

In Canada, capital outlays will amount to about $120 million during the 2 years. In another vein, the New York Times has this to say:

THE MERCHANT'S VIEW-STRONG EASTER SALES SHOW TAX CUT IS HAVING RAPID IMPACT ON RETAILING

(By Herbert Koshetz)

The stimulus of the tax cut is already evident at the retail level.

Easter buying, which generally gets off to a slow start when the holiday falls early and weather conditions are not particularly favorable, is reported to be excellent in most areas of the country.

There can be little doubt that the extra dollars coming into paychecks this month with the drop in withholding rates are being spent.

Retailers have gotten off to a running start for the year as a whole, and it should be noted that buying sentiment was strong even before the enactment of the tax cut. In February, sales of leading chainstores registered a 15.4 percent gain over those of the 1963 month and for January and February together, the increase was 13.6 percent.

GAINS FOR BIG STORES

Department stores in the first 2 months of the year also showed good gains, with an increase of 8 percent in January and 15 percent in February. Sales in the first 2 weeks in March are also substantially ahead of last year's.

February figures, however, must be considered in the light of calendar peculiarities. As the shortest month of the year, February usually does not contain more than four Saturdays. But in leap years, with 29 days in February, an additional Saturday can creep in. Such was the case in 1964, but it won't happen again for another 28 years, or until 1992.

The tax cut came as a pleasant surprise to many consumers. This was pointed out last week by the University of Michigan's Survey Center in its latest report on consumer attitudes.

DOUBTS PERSISTED

As recently as November 1963, the survey noted, only 31 percent of the American people believed that a bill to cut taxes would be passed by Congress. In January, 59 percent became aware of the likelihood of a tax cut, but a significant number still were doubtful up to the last moment.

The Michigan survey appears to confirm other attitude studies that presage a decline in automobile sales this year. Despite the overall gain in consumer confidence, it seems that fewer families are voicing the intention to buy cars this year than was the case in January 1963.

The auto industry says otherwise. Last week, the carmakers predicted an 8-millioncar year on the basis of first quarter sales.

The university study notes, however, that plans to buy automobiles might have been different if all consumers had known positively in January that they were going to get a tax cut.

On the basis of what was known, the survey shows than 14.8 percent of all families had included a car, new or used, in their buying plans for 1964. In January 1963, 17.9 percent of all families said they intended to buy a car in the insuing 12 months.

January showed that intentions of consumers to buy homes fell by a fraction.

Another survey, this one compiled by the National Industrial Conference Board using data collected by Sindlinger & Co., a marketing research concern, showed a more substantial drop in home-buying intentions.

This survey, also made in January, indicated that 3.3 percent of all consumers intended to buy a home within 6 months, compared with 4 percent a year earlier.

The Industrial Conference Board's continuing study indicated, however, that there was a perceptible decline in car-buying intentions, particularly for used cars. In its latest tally, the board found that 8.9 percent of all families intended to buy a car, new or used, within the next 6 months, compared with 9.3 percent a year before.

APPLIANCES GAIN

Among those planning to buy, 4.5 percent said they would shop for a new automobile, the same percentage as in 1963. Another 3.5 percent indicated they would look for a secondhand model, against 3.8 percent a year earlier. A little less than 1 percent said they did not know whether they would look for a new or used car.

Plans to buy new appliances, according to the conference board study, have perked up sharply since the closing months of 1963. In almost 11 out of every 100 homes visited, consumers planned to buy some appliances and, overall to buy more of nearly every type of appliance.

As for home furnishings, the conference board survey indicated that 7.4 percent of all consumers would make a furniture purure is below the furniture purchase figure chase in the next 6 months. While this figof a year ago, it is much improved over previous estimates. There appears to be some improvement, also, in plans to buy floor coverings.

Ukrainian Independence Day

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. JOHN W. McCORMACK

OF MASSACHUSETTS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. McCORMACK. Mr. Speaker, in my extension of remarks, I include a proclamation by His Excellency, the Honorable Endicott Peabody, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in connection with the 46th anniversary "of the proclamation of the free and independent national Republic of Ukraine" and also a declaration in connection with Ukrainian Independence Day, issued by the Honorable John F. Collins, mayor of Boston:

PROCLAMATION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Whereas January 22, 1964, marks the 46th anniversary of the proclamation of the free and independent national Republic of Ukraine; and

Whereas during the past 41⁄2 decades the Ukrainian people have never surrendered the spirit of freedom, nor given up the hope for regaining full freedom and independence; and

Whereas both our Congress and our President have recognized the plight of all captive nations by enacting legislation establishing a Captive Nations Week and calling upon the President by his proclamations to focus attention to their plight; and

Whereas the Ukraine is listed as one of the captive nations under Russian Communist domination; and

Whereas the Americans of Ukrainian descent will commemorate the 46th anniversary of the Ukrainian independence with special ceremonies: Now, therefore,

I, Endicott Peabody, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby proclaim as Ukrainian Independence Day, January 22, 1964, in Massachusetts, and urge the citizens of our Commonwealth to cooperate in its observance.

Given at the executive chamber in Boston, this 22d day of January in the year of our Lord, 1964, and of the independence of the United States of America, the 188th. ENDICOTT PEABODY, Governor.

By His Excellency the Governor:

KEVIN H. WHITE, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

DECLARATION OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, CITY HALL Whereas, January 22, 1964, marks the 46th anniversary of Ukrainian independence; and Whereas Americans who have always cherished freedom should call attention to the plight of the Ukrainian people and other enslaved nations; and

Whereas Americans of Ukrainian descent of the Boston area will observe this 46th anniversary of Ukrainian independence in an appropriate and solemn manner; and

Whereas it is incumbent on the people of the city of Boston to commemorate this memorable day in support of the struggle of the captive nations to regain their freedom and independence from Communist domination: Now, therefore,

I, John F. Collins, mayor of the city of Boston, do hereby declare Wednesday, January 22, 1964, as Ukrainian Independence Day in the city of Boston, and I direct that the Ukrainian national flag be raised on city hall plaza that day, as a symbol of Ukrainian independence. JOHN F. COLLINS, Mayor of Boston.

It Sort of Makes You Wonder

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. W. E. (BILL) BROCK

OF TENNESSEE

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. BROCK. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Jenkin Lloyd Jones writing in his column recently contrasted our beatnik coffeehouse cult with the frugal Amish farmers who are among the most productive people in our land.

I believe all of us would gain a great deal from Mr. Jones' fine article in the Washington Evening Star of March 2, 1964:

IT SORT OF MAKES YOU WONDER-GOVERNMENT PUTS BEATS ON THE DOLE, BUT BadgERS THE SELF-SUFFICIENT Amish

(By Jenkin Lloyd Jones) NEW YORK CITY.-I am sitting in this little coffeehouse on Third Street in Greenwich Village, watching the beats.

The place is a gutted-out store with bare brick walls and rough pine tables and benches. It is decorated with some farout pieces of art, reminding you of fingerpainting day in kindergarten. Right in front of

a strong spotlight is a raised platform of unpainted boards that holds one straight chair. You can either sit in the chair or stand and place your foot on the seat, depending on how you like to wallop the guitar.

Coffee is a dollar a mug and the entertainers make their pittance by passing around a basket. Here and there a tourist will drop in a buck, but the Greenwich Village habitues rarely toss in more than a dime. It seems to work out that the more you are with it the less you give.

Down the street and around the corner there are larger and more famous places where you can buy wine and where combos alternate with unwashed people reciting dirty blank verse with great attention to its "social protest." It is in these brassier coffeehouses that the ban-the-bomb and justice-for-Castro crowd hangs out, perhaps because there are more people to see them.

But my little coffeehouse is for the beatPuritans. Only coffee. Only folk music.

Folk music is simple and uncomplicated, born of log cabins and campfires, and sad with unrequited love and untimely death. You watch the spectators. Long-haired boys clad in stained slacks and open shirts. Frowzy girls with unwashed hair, studied in their ugliness. And you think what a colossal joke it is that these who profess to despise uniformity have slipped into an easily recognizable uniform, the uniform of the slob.

But there is something more. Here are many able-bodied young people who not only accept but seek public welfare payments. Yet they pride themselves upon their compassion for the poor who, if they are to be helped, must be helped by the labor of someone. Here are the pleaders for peace at any price who have never tasted the horrors of war but who have concluded that no cause is worth dying for.

Here are the laughers at law, the scorners of morality, the rejectors of thrift, the scoffers at "squares" who work-absorbed completely in the quest for their own self-satisfaction. And they gather in this smoky grotto to stare at the ceiling, to twitch their shoulders and softly snap their fingers as the guitar men and women sing music that is easy on the brain.

So, to the Amish. Later I was at Lancaster, Pa., and a friend lent me his car so that I might drive out into the beautiful farm country where the barns are the fattest, the cattle the sleekest, and the fields the neatest in all America.

There are some striking parallels between the Amish and the beats. For both, beards are the style. Both dress peculiarly. And while the beats seek the simplicity of primitive music the Amish turn their backs on modern machinery and drive the Pennsylvania roads in their black buggies.

There are, however, a few differences. The Amish have no divorce, no crime, no juvenile delinquency, no unemployment, or old age problems. They take care of their own. They refuse Government subsidies. They take no money for not plowing a field. They dislike insurance. If a barn burns the whole community rushes to rebuild it. Because they supply their own social security they object to social security taxes.

This has brought down upon them the wrath of the huge national bureaucracy which sees only chaos if some people are permitted to look elsewhere than to the Government for their welfare. So the Amish have been repeatedly yanked into the Federal courts. A couple of years ago Government agents even seized Amish horses at plowing time to satisfy social security judgments.

We have a system of government under which all beats are comfortable and the Amish are bullied and badgered. It sort of makes you wonder.

Now an Iowa Banker Explains the Effect of Cheap Cattle Prices

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. BEN F. JENSEN

OF IOWA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. JENSEN. Mr. Speaker, now an Iowa banker explains the effect of cheap cattle prices. I must keep returning to this critical issue time and again until Congress is persuaded that an important segment of our economy is experiencing truly difficult times, and then pass a bill to materially reduce meat imports.

Fed cattle price decline is primarily due to nearly unlimited imports of all kinds of meat.

One of my constituents has taken me to task for claiming the top echelon downtown-the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the. Tariff Commission-has done little about this problem. My critic points at the recent agreement between United States and the Australia-New Zealand bloc, and the meat-buying for school lunches ordered by Secretary Freeman as evidence of executive action.

What everyone else seems to know, even if my complainant does not, is that this action will have little effect, and it was this ineffectiveness I lament.

Let anybody who thinks our cattlefeeders do not have an acute problem read the following letter I have received from Oscar Otto, a respected banker. Mr. Otto is not given to exaggeration, so I can promise you that you are reading an accurate description of this sorry

mess:

WHITNEY LOAN & TRUST CO. BANK, Atlantic, Iowa, March 9, 1964. Hon. BEN. F. JENSEN, Member of Congress.

DEAR BEN: No doubt you have received much mail in regard to the imports of beef, and how much this has affected the market. Perhaps there are other factors which enter into the picture. I do think, however, that you might be interested in knowing about a few experiences and our customers, who have lost heavily in their feeding operations. One customer has increased his real estate loan $7,000. Another one in Exira has increased the loan on his land by $3,500 and his home loan in Exira by $2,000, in order to pick up his losses. At the present time, two more of our farmers are contemplating increasing their farm loans to take care of capital operations, caused by the drop in prices.

I would like to call attention to one Danish farmer in the Brayton territory, who lost heavily on cattle. He sat at the desk of one of our officers the other morning, crying. He has part-time work whenever possible in hauling rural mail, and referees basketball games, to bring in additional income. After he settled up for his 1963 operations we took a chattel mortgage on his machinery for $4,000, including his equity in his 1964 feeding operations, which he feels is $1,800 on new purchases of cattle. He is greatly concerned and worried over his future as a farmer

Controversy in Capital: Cultural Center Arousing Rancor Before It's Begun

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OF

HON. J. ARTHUR YOUNGER

OF CALIFORNIA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. YOUNGER. Mr. Speaker, from several angles it now appears as if Congress was a little too hasty in making the determination about the memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy in view of the fact that some difficulties seem to have arisen as mentioned by Patricia Warden Reisinger in the following article:

CONTROVERSY IN CAPITAL: CULTURAL CENTER AROUSING RANCOR BEFORE IT'S BEGUN

(By Patricia Warden Reisinger) Will Washington's proposed new Cultural Center-now designated as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts-be a fitting memorial to the martyred Presidentor will it become a center of controversy that will rankle for years to come?

This is but one of many questions swirling around the controversial Center. Shrouded by conflicting information-or none at allthe Center has emerged in the last 2 months not as a cultural nucleus endowed by the American people, but, to some, as an evergrowing project grasping for Federal funds.

Authorized by legislation signed by President Eisenhower, the proposed Center enjoyed the encouragement of the arts-minded Kennedys. The Government agreed to contribute original the land-a specified site on the Potomac and the Center's Board of Trustees were empowered to launch a fundraising campaign. The building-scaled down in cost to $30 million by Mr. Kennedy-was to be built solely by private contributions under the first plan.

The estimated cost of the Center already has jumped from $30 million to at least $50 million and the land needed from almost 8 acres to 182. New plans show a building not 6 stories but 12 stories high.

When President Kennedy last September extended the time for contributions, Representative CHARLOTTE REID, Republican, of Illinois, a trustee, was assured by other trustees that the board had no intention to request, or need Federal funds either to complete the Center or to maintain it. had opposed the us of Federal funds declaring the center would be a more meaningful memorial if built by the people.

She

Now the Congress has been asked to authorize Federal assistance of $34.4 million for the Center.

Adding to the cost and the argument is the location of the Center. It would stand on a flood site and the Corps of Engineers has not been consulted as to the feasibility of placing the high priced structure on this land. The site is not easily accessible from the center city, some believe, and parking may be a problem.

A chief bone of contention is the expense of a three-story parking pavilion proposed to house 1,600 cars (at a cost of almost $10,000 per space) to accommodate patrons in the 6,450 seats in the three auditoriums.

There is considerable disagreement regarding the utility of the three large auditoriums. A half-dozen Washington theaters have closed in the last 2 years and the city's symphony has been supplemented by private funds for years. Doubt is expressed whether the city can support the Center without

subsidy.

Because of an ambitious fundraising program, sponsors already have spent more than

$1 million, or one-fourth of the actual moneys reecived between April 1959 and December 1963.

Of this $1 million, some $451,500 went for salaries. Cost figures up to last November 30 indicate almost $572,000 was used for promotion and public relations and an additional $42,000 for printing and publicity. The $1 million includes only operating and promotional costs, without architectural or engineering fees.

The Center has raised about $13 million,

but more than half of that is in accounts

receivable (pledges) and includes a $5 million grant from the Ford Foundation which will not be forthcoming until a total of $20

million is raised.

Of the $34.4 million request, $15.4 million will be derived from bonds repayable to the Treasury for the parking facilities, estimated to cost $11 million, and associated expenses. The $15.5 million asked of Congress is slated for construction. The remaining $3.3 million is for additional land-which Congress was assured on a number of occasions, would not be needed.

The uncertainty surrounding the Center's activities has stalled, at least temporarily, sale of a prominent Washington business

enterprise.

During World War II, Mrs. Marjory Hendricks created a restaurant out of a riding stable. She decorated Watergate Inn after the manner of the Pennsylvania Dutch who, to her, exemplified the four freedoms for which the Nation was then fighting. Business weary, Mrs. Hendricks last year wanted to sell. She repeatedly tried to ascertain whether the Center would require her property. Assurances were given both Mrs. Hendricks and Nicholas Kittrie, a local attorney representing a small syndicate who wanted to buy the restaurant, that it would not be needed. A tentative buy and sell agreement was reached for $900,000. Now final settlement has been postponed.

Charged with acquiring additional land now needed, the National Capital Planning Commission has asked for $500,000 to buy not only the 10,806 square feet of Watergate land, but an adjacent lot of 845 square feet. It is uncertain that the proportionate share of $500,000 proposed as payment for the restaurant would even cover the purchase of a comparable lot-to say nothing of relocating costs.

Sara Kay Bohrer

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. ROBERT T. McLOSKEY

OF ILLINOIS

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. McLOSKEY. Mr. Speaker, those of use who are privileged to serve in this great legislative body consider it a great honor and from time to time receive accolades because of the service we render.

with ourselves we would have to admit I am sure, however, if we are honest that the unsung heroes of any congressional office are the staff members. I, for one, realize that in order to properly carry out my duties and responsibilities it is necessary to have loyal, efficient, and competent office help.

Not only do the services of these employees mean so much to each of us, but in a larger sense contribute greatly to the successful operation of the Congress as a whole.

I take this time today to pay tribute

to a wonderful lady who on March 1 retired from congressional service after meritorious service. I refer to Sara Kay more than 30 years of faithful and Bohrer who at the time of her retirement was my assistant.

Kay Bohrer began her congressional employment with Representative Moorehead, of Nebraska, in 1930. Subsequent ative Paul Kvale, of Minnesota, and Sento that time she worked with Representator DIRKSEN when he was a Member of the House. She then began a long and successful career with the Chiperfield family of Illinois, serving first with B. M. Chiperfield and continuing from 1939 to 1963 with Congressman Robert B. Chiperfield, my predecessor from the 19th Illinois District.

Kay Bohrer was very helpful to me in my first term as a freshman Congressman and did much to help me over the rough spots during my indoctrination and transition from a State legislator to a U.S. Representative. For her advice and understanding patience I shall always be grateful.

After these many years of loyal and devoted public service she is certainly entitled to a well-earned rest. I am sure members of the Illinois congressional delegation and their staffs join with the many other persons, both in and out of Government, in wishing for Kay a very pleasant and happy retirement.

ZIP Code Colloquy

EXTENSION OF REMARKS

OF

HON. E. Y. BERRY

OF SOUTH DAKOTA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Monday, March 23, 1964

Mr. BERRY. Mr. Speaker, the pros and cons of the ZIP code idea have been kicked around, some with serious concern and some that is less serious. I have asked consent to insert in the RECORD the editorial from the McLaughlin (S. Dak.) Messenger on the subject. The editorial follows:

We have never been red hot editorial supporters of the New Frontier's ZIP code at the post office. We have gone along with the program to the extent of putting the ZIP code on most of the return addresses on envelopes we print in our shop. Since the start of the program we cannot remember a letter that came with our ZIP code, although a lot of mail we receive has the ZIP code of the sender on the return address.

This would indicate the program isn't getting very far off the ground. People in the post office are a lot more concerned with where letters are going than where they came from.

One of the postmasters with whom we have occasion to converse says people should get on the ball with this ZIP code business beput in machines that will sort the mail accause the Post Office Department is going to cording to the ZIP code.

is going to build a machine that can read It takes a lot of faith to believe somebody addresses. People don't make the pattern

of their numbers standard enough to make a machine take the same action for each number even if by some mysterious electric